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<h2>Wages and Education of Young Males</h2>

<h3>Description</h3>

<p>A panel of 545 observations from 1980 to 1987
</p>


<h3>Format</h3>

<p>A data frame containing :
</p>

<dl>
<dt>nr</dt><dd><p>identifier</p>
</dd>
<dt>year</dt><dd><p>year</p>
</dd>
<dt>school</dt><dd><p>years of schooling</p>
</dd>
<dt>exper</dt><dd><p>years of experience (computed as <code>age-6-school</code>)</p>
</dd>
<dt>union</dt><dd><p>wage set by collective bargaining?</p>
</dd>
<dt>ethn</dt><dd><p>a factor with levels <code style="white-space: pre;">black, hisp, other</code></p>
</dd>
<dt>married</dt><dd><p>married?</p>
</dd>
<dt>health</dt><dd><p>health problem?</p>
</dd>
<dt>wage</dt><dd><p>log of hourly wage</p>
</dd>
<dt>industry</dt><dd><p>a factor with 12 levels</p>
</dd>
<dt>occupation</dt><dd><p>a factor with 9 levels</p>
</dd>
<dt>residence</dt><dd><p>a factor with levels <code style="white-space: pre;">rural_area, north_east, northern_central, south</code></p>
</dd>
</dl>


<h3>Details</h3>

<p><em>total number of observations</em> : 4360
</p>
<p><em>observation</em> : individuals
</p>
<p><em>country</em> : United States
</p>


<h3>Source</h3>

<p>Journal of Applied Econometrics data archive
<a href="http://qed.econ.queensu.ca/jae/1998-v13.2/vella-verbeek/">http://qed.econ.queensu.ca/jae/1998-v13.2/vella-verbeek/</a>.
</p>


<h3>References</h3>

<p>Vella F, Verbeek M (1998).
&ldquo;Whose wages do unions raise? A dynamic model of
                  unionism and wage rate determination for young men.&rdquo;
<em>Journal of Applied Econometrics</em>, <b>13</b>, 163&ndash;183.
</p>
<p>Verbeek M (2004).
<em>A Guide to Modern Econometrics</em>.
Wiley.
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